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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Hey it's Tuesday and I'm actually playing on the right day! Thanks go to Marie at The Boston Bibliophile for hosting Tuesday Thingers. This week's Tuesday Thingsers subject: Here is the Top 100 Most Popular Books on LibraryThing. Bold what you own, italicize what you've read. Star what you liked. Star multiple times what you loved!

So I knew by reading this list when I was cleaning it up to post here that anything the remotely looks, smells or tastes like a classic modern or otherwise wasn't going to be anything I've come within a 100 feet of. That most likely labels me a sheep or lemming as I'm appearing to follow the crowd but so be it.

1. Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by J.K. Rowling (32,484) ***2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling (29,939) ***3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling (28,728) ***4. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J.K. Rowling (27,926) ***5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.K. Rowling (27,643) ***6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling (27,641) ***7. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (23,266) *8. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (21,325)9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling (20,485) ***10. 1984 by George Orwell (19,735)11. Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen (19,583)12. The catcher in the rye by J.D. Salinger (19,082) ~ required school reading13. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (17,586) ***14. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (16,210) ~ required school reading15. The lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (15,483)16. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (14,566)17. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte (14,449)18. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (13,946)19. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (13,272)20. Animal Farm by George Orwell (13,091)21. Angels & demons by Dan Brown (13,089) *22. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (13,005)23. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (12,777)24. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (12,634)25. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien (12,276)26. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (12,147)27. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (11,976) *28. The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien (11,512)29. The Odyssey by Homer (11,483)30. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (11,392)31. Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut (11,360)32. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (11,257)33. The return of the king : being the third part of The lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (11,082)34. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (10,979)35. American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman (10,823)36. The chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (10,603)37. The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams (10,537)38. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (10,435)39. The lovely bones : a novel by Alice Sebold (10,125)40. Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (10,092)41. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (9,827)42. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman (9,745)43. Dune by Frank Herbert (9,671)44. Emma by Jane Austen (9,610)45. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (9,598)46. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain (9,593)47. Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy (9,433)48. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (9,413)49. Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (9,343)50. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (9,336)51. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (9,274)52. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (9,246)53. The Iliad by Homer (9,153)54. The Stranger by Albert Camus (9,084)55. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen (9,080)56. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (9,027)57. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (8,960)58. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (8,904)59. Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (8,813)60. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery - (8,764)61. The lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (8,421) ~ too long ago/childhood62. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (8,417)63. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (8,368)64. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (8,255)65. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (8,214)66. The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (8,191) 67. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (8,169)68. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (8,129)69. The complete works by William Shakespeare (8,096)70. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (7,843)71. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (7,834)72. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver (7,829)73. Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (7,808)74. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck (7,807)75. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (7,793)76. The Alchemist (Plus) by Paulo Coelho (7,710)77. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (7,648)78. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Oscar Wilde (7,598)79. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk (7,569)80. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (7,557)81. The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) by Philip Pullman (7,534)82. Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (7,530)83. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (7,512)84. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (7,436) *85. Dracula by Bram Stoker (7,238)86. Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad (7,153)87. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (7,055)88. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (7,052)89. The amber spyglass by Philip Pullman (7,043)90. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (6,933)91. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (6,901)92. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (6,899)93. Neuromancer by William Gibson (6,890)94. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (6,868)95. Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen (6,862)96. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (6,841)97. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (6,794)98. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (6,715)99. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (6,708)100. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (6,697)

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